Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Hislop

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

Ruth Rendell

I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them.

Trip Hawkins

Sorry to say it, but an awful lot of us are not happy, and we're not sure why. We're bored and lonely. Too often we're popping Prozac. We want to interact and be entertained constantly.

Initially, when they opened table games, no one had ever dealt cards. We advertised in the Las Vegas papers and it built upon itself. Every dealer in Las Vegas knows what's going on in Southern California. If they want to get a pretty good job and change their lifestyle, they come here. Our dealers make an awful lot of money.

An awful lot of them used too much CoolWhip,

David Tennant

An awful lot of scenes aren't filmed yet.

Ted Cruz

An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

Martin Clunes

An awful lot of people have childhood memories of holidays in Cornwall, and the holidays are old-fashioned and hugely successful. You stick a child and a dog on one of the beaches, and they just light up; they just love it.

Alan Woods

An awful lot of people are very upset with us, and we've got to do whatever we can to reduce taxes and show them we are trying.

An awful lot of people are skittish about the stock market, but real estate, that's viewed in the general public as a sure thing.

An awful lot of food is thrown away. This you can call a spillover. It doesn't sort of enter into our economic system because it's a consequence of running things in a highly competitive way: the free market, global pricing and so on.

an awful lot of cases have been blown right at the instant they're discovered ? not intentionally but because security professionals are not trained in how to preserve evidence.

Vincent Lecavalier

An awful call, ... Offensively, I go with my instincts. If I think the play is to make a play, that's what I do. It didn't work out. I'm just going to keep playing hard. If I get benched for it, that's fine.

Prince Philip

It's not a very big one, but at least it's dead and it took an awful lot of killing!

The conditions were awful but the bounce of the ball, plus a couple of unacceptable lapses in concentration, have cost us.

Edward de Bono

The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.

Eddie Bracken

I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

Kurt Vonnegut

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

The loss to Bradford was simply an awful effort on our behalf.

P. J. O'Rourke

It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.

Malachy McCourt

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

John Kenneth Galbraith

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.

Norman Schwarzkopf

An awful lot has been written about my temper.

Reese Witherspoon

Everything I sang sounded awful. So I went outside and I screamed. Everyone pretty much agreed it was awful.

Rick Baker

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

Tim Roth

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

Lawrence Block

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

Marcia Cross

I really romanticized being pregnant. Then I realized, this is awful!

Thom Yorke

Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.

P. C. Cast

I'm going to remember this, I told myself sternly. I'm going to remember how awful they made me feel today. So when I'm scared and alone and whatever else is going to happen to me starts to happen, I'm going to remember that nothing about be as bad as being stuck here.Nothing.

Joss Whedon

I am a fan of sequels even though they are inevitably awful.

Peter Cameron

I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.